{"id":7360,"date":"2021-05-05T20:34:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2021-05-05T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:39:14","slug":"the-dover-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/05\/the-dover-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dover Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dover Companion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In my dream I was carrying you on my back around the streets of Dover<\/p>\n<p>With only your golden hair exposed<\/p>\n<p>As I walked I was describing what I saw<\/p>\n<p>But you were asleep and did not answer me<\/p>\n<p>On a couple of occasions I stumbled as the pavements were uneven<\/p>\n<p>I felt you grip my shoulders and then relax as my balance returned<\/p>\n<p>Later as the day matured you awoke and requested refreshment<\/p>\n<p>Which we shared at a beachside caf\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>Whilst watching the shadow swimmers dive from the last jetty in England<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Caron in Dover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The day was bright and the ferries red white and blue<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shone as they crossed the summer sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could smell your perfume<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which hung majestically in the warm air<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dover Companion \u00a0In my dream I was carrying you on my back around the streets of Dover With only your golden hair exposed As I walked I was describing what I saw But you were asleep and did not answer me On a couple of occasions I stumbled as the pavements were uneven I felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}